Mining operation in Mexico reveals cave of giant crystals, some more than 30 feet long.

Geologist Juan Manuel García-Ruiz calls it "the Sistine Chapel of crystals," but Superman could call it home.

A sort of south-of-the-border Fortress of Solitude, Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales contains some of the world's largest known natural crystals — translucent beams of gypsum as long as 36 feet (11 meters).

When so called uber liberal reporters Joe Klein and Maureen Dowd were kicked of McWorse's plane, the entire Reich-Wing had a collective orgasm. When Socialist/Marxist/Communist next supreme dictator of the United Socialist States of America, b. HUSSEIN Osama Obama gives the boot to three reporters, it's

.... to Archie G for "Hot Fuzz" and "Pompeii"! I started reading it as soon as I got it out of the box. I've always been fascinated by Pompeii and meant to visit it last year, then the dollar started tanking. Stoopid republicans. Thanks so much, AG!!

Appearing once again on The Daily Show, Bill Kristol, Jon Stewart's favorite whipping boy ("Bill Kristol, aren't you ever right?"), tonight defended the McCain-Palin ticket, at one point informing the show's host that he was getting his news from suspect sources:

Like pulling thousands of kids out of school in order to make you look good for the cameras.

While Sen. Obama draws hundreds of thousands to his events, McCain is reduced to busing in children to fill seats at a campaign photo-op:

An Ohio school district official confirmed that of the 6,000 people present at a McCain rally, 4,000 were bused in from schools in the area. The entire 2,500-student Defiance School District was in attendance, the official said, in addition to at least three other schools from neighboring districts, one of which sent 14 buses.

Watch what you look like, citizen: Audience members were thrown out of John McCoward's campaign event in a Cedar Falls rally Sunday even though they were not protesting.

“I saw a couple that had been escorted out and they were confused as well, and the girl was crying, so I said ‘Why are you crying? and she said ‘I already voted for McCain, I’m a Republican, and they said we had to leave because we didn’t look right,’” Lara Elborno, a student, said. “They were handpicking these people and they had nothing to go off of, besides the way the people looked.”

Elborno said she’s stunned at how the situation was handled, especially McCain’s staffers’ refusal to discuss the matter.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” she said.

Despite repeated attempts, McCain’s campaign could not be reached for comment.

Oh, this is rich. Caribou Barbie, who can't say what newspapers she reads or what Supreme Court decisions she remembers, who won't release her medical records, said Thursday that Barack Obama didn't offer many national security specifics in the campaimercial he broadcast the night before. Which she obviously didn't watch. And without offering any of her own national security specifics, you betcha.

Bonus asshattery:

Palin received a volley of boos when she said she was glad to be in the home state of the World Series-champion Philadelphia Phillies. Northwestern Pennsylvania baseball fans favor the Cleveland Indians or Pittsburgh Pirates.

A growing number of voters say that Caribou Barbie is not qualified to be vice president and is dragging McCain's campaign down even further, according to a New York Times/CBS News/Duh Institute poll.

59 percent of voters surveyed said that Ms. Palin was not prepared for the job, up 9 percentage points since the beginning of the month. Nearly a third of voters polled said that the vice-presidential selection would be a major factor influencing their vote for president, and those voters broadly favored Senator Barack Obama.

In other news, there are still 41 percent that "think" Ms Palin is prepared to be vice president. Seriously, who are you fuckers? 'Cause that's so fucking dumb.

The increase in the number of voters who said that Ms. Palin was not prepared was driven almost entirely by Republicans and independents.

That is huge. Not just for the election, but for what she sees as her future in the party. Which, praise to Jeebus, is starting to look more like 'toast.'

"Think about it. Just six days from today, we'll know for sure exactly which candidate will be suing the other for voter fraud." --Jay Leno"More Republicans endorsing Barack Obama. Great. Now Republicans will have to suppress their own turnout." --Stephen Colbert"Here's how it works. Election is Tuesday. And then Wednesday is the first day of Sarah Palin's 2012 campaign." --David Letterman"Republicans are warning voters right now that if Barack Obama is elected president, the Democrats will control all three branches of the government. That's what they're saying, yeah. John McCain said this would be dangerous, Dick Cheney said it would be expensive, And Sarah Palin said, we have three branches of government?" --Conan O'Brien"You know what, justice system? Do your worst to Ted Stevens. Throw the book at him. Sentence him to solitary. Nothing is going to break this man! Because he knows that he has what it takes to be pardoned by President Bush. But, listen, Senator Stevens, if you do end up in prison, try sneaking out through the internet. After all, it really is just a series of tubes." --Stephen Colbert

From an asshole candidate. An editorial in the Washington Post blasts John McLiar's latest attempt to smear Sen. Obama:

With the presidential campaign clock ticking down, John McCain has suddenly discovered a new boogeyman to link to Sen. Barack Obama: a sometimes controversial but widely respected Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi.

In the past couple of days, McCain and his brownshirted running mate, Sarah Palin, have likened Mr. Khalidi, the director of a Middle East institute at Columbia University, to neo-Nazis; called him "a PLO spokesman"; and suggested that the Los Angeles Times is hiding something sinister by refusing to release a videotape of a 2003 dinner in honor of Mr. Khalidi at which Mr. Obama spoke. McCain even threw former Weatherman Bill Ayers into the mix, suggesting that the tape might reveal that Mr. Ayers was at the dinner.

They stopped short of calling him a puppy-eating gay terrorist child-molester -- oh, and of mentioning John McCain's own ties to the man.

To suggest, as McCain has, that there is something reprehensible about associating with Mr. Khalidi is itself condemnable -- especially during a campaign in which Arab ancestry has been the subject of insults. To further argue that the Times is trying to hide something is simply ludicrous, as McCain surely knows.

Which reminds us: We did ask Mr. Khalidi whether he wanted to respond to the campaign charges against him. He answered, via e-mail, that "I will stick to my policy of letting this idiot wind blow over." That's good advice for anyone still listening to the McCain campaign's increasingly reckless ad hominem attacks. Sadly, that wind is likely to keep blowing for four more days.

Some days I wish Sen Obama would just sucker-punch this douchewipe right between the eyes.

Members of the majority party’s leadership have discussed taking away traitorous snot Joe Lieberman’s gavel and happily pounding him over the head with it, sources said Wednesday while high-fiving each other.

Democratic leaders have not spoken with Lieberman about his future, as he is "focused on saving his contemptible a doing all he can to elect John McCain as president.”

Lieberman has spots on Homeland Security, Armed Services, and the Environment and Public Works committees.

The rethug rump-swab is expected to retain his gavel for the Small Dickless Quisling committee, but he can kiss most of the others, along with his ass, goodbye in January. If not sooner, the miserable twat.

Yesterday, joking with Jon Stewart, Obama made reference to how marginal Fox's audience is becoming:

"I think that there's a certain segment of hardcore Sean Hannity fans that probably wouldn't want to go have a beer with me,'' Obama conceded. "There's no doubt about that.

"But I think that the average voter, they're saying to themselves, 'What's all this stuff about? I'm trying to figure out whether I can hang on to my house.'"

It would be so lovely if, along with the start of an Obama administration, we could also see the end of those virulent pus-sacs at Fux Nooze. Right after they broadcast that shot of Karl Rove being frog-marched out of his house in handcuffs.

It seems that Blinky McWorse's latest gutter in the low road with a kitchen sink strategy seems to be taking every fuck up he's made in the campaign, removing his name and inserting b. HUSSEIN Ayers Marx Hitler Pinochet Osama Obama. The stenographers at the AP report

"Republican presidential candidate John McCain seized on reports of record oil company profits Thursday to criticize Democratic rival Barack Obama for favoring tax breaks for the oil industry."

Soon, old melanoma-head will be blaming Obama for puting Palin on the Republican ticket.

Lush Bimbo always can be counted on to take shit one step further into coo-coo land- he is outraged over how much Exxonmobil paid in taxes!The bigger story, and the one that the "liberal" media has not really picked up on, is the McCain campaign's utter contempt for the truth.Up = DownRight = WrongFreedom Agenda = TortureMaverick = Same old shitI can't wait until next Wednesday, the first day of the failed Socialist presidency.

In a horribly-written yet enjoyable column, conservaturd pundit Roger Simon weeps that Grampy McFusepants has nobody to blame but himself for the major fiasco his campaign has become.

John McCain's campaign is looking for a scapegoat. It is looking for someone to blame if McCain loses on Tuesday. And it has decided on Sarah Palin.

In recent days, a McCain “adviser” told CNN: “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone.”

Imagine not taking advice from the geniuses at the McCain campaign. What could Palin be thinking?

Also, a “top McCain adviser” told Politico that Palin is “a whack job.” Maybe she is. But who chose to put this “whack job” on the ticket? Wasn’t it John McCain? And wasn’t it his first presidential-level decision?

But his campaign’s bad decisions have not stopped with Sarah Palin. It has made a series of questionable calls, including making Joe the Plumber the embodiment of the campaign.

Are voters really expected to warmly embrace an (unlicensed) plumber who owes back taxes and complains about the possibility of making a quarter million dollars a year?

Own campaign is aghast as Harpy Diva already looking past old man McNuts' loss to her triumphant coronation as leader of rethuglican party.

WOLF BLITZER: And this just coming into the "Situation Room," Sarah Palin now speaking out openly about her intentions in 2012 if, if she and John McCain were to lose this contest next Tuesday. Sarah Palin is now saying she would be interested in remaining a serious national political figure, going ahead to 2012.

Sarah Palin says. "I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we've taken, that ... that would ... bring this whole ... I'm not doin' this for naught," and that is a direct quote from Sarah Palin. Clearly, leaving open the possibility that she would be interested in leading the Republican Party in 2012 if she and John McCain were to lose this presidential contest right now.

Let's go to Dana Bash. She has been covering the McCain campaign reaction from the rather blunt statement from Sarah Palin that she would in fact be interested in leading the Republican Party going forward after Tuesday if they lose?

BASH: I just got off of the phone, Wolf, with a senior McCain adviser and I read this person the quote and I think it is fair to say that this person was speechless. There was a long pause and I just heard a "huh" on the other end of the phone. This is certainly not a surprise to anybody who has watched Sarah Palin that she is interested in potentially future national runs, and she is being urged to by a lot of people inside of the Republican Party if they do lose, but it is an "if" and people inside of the McCain campaign do not want any discussion that has an "if" in front of it six days before the election, they don't want any discussion at all, any kind of hypothetical talk about running for the next time around. So certainly, this is not at least initially being received well inside of the McCain campaign.

BLITZER: I am not surprised, not surprised at all. It is one of those "wow, she is talking about 2012 if we lose," that is not supposed to be something that you say. You are supposed to say, "well, I'm not looking ahead, I'm not looking ahead only to Tuesday," and those are the talking points she's supposed to be saying, but she is obviously blunt and she is looking ahead if something were to happen on Tuesday that she wouldn't be happy with.

Dayyum. That bitch is crazier than Dick Cheney. I can almost picture her in white robes, heading a cult of klanspeople as they wait for a new comet to carry them off to the Rapture.

A new ethics complaint has been filed against Sarah Failin, accusing the WalMart hockey-mom of abusing her power by charging the state of Alaska when her brood traveled with her.

The complaint alleges that [Bible Spice] used her official position as governor for personal gain, violating a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. The complaint released Wednesday says Palin charged the travel costs for events her children were not invited to and where they served in no legitimate state purpose or business.

"Sarah ran on this very self-righteous campaign on ethics and anti-corruption. She is no different from the others," [Anchorage patriot Frank] Gwartney said. "Fuck this shit already."

The state already is reviewing nearly $17,000 in per diem payments to Palin for 312 nights she slept at her home in Wasilla, about an hour's drive from her satellite office in Anchorage.

PHOENIX -- (PTSD News) -- To counter Senator Barack Obama's unprecedented half-hour "Closing Argument to the Everyman" that aired on several networks, Senator John McCain announced that he will be airing his own closing argument on Fox tomorrow night. Entitled "Thanks for Nothing, You Ungrateful Whores," the speech is basically a rant of all "the unfiltered straight talk the party bosses stifled me from saying for all these long months," according to McCain.The presentation begins with McCain in full military uniform holding a picture of Barack Obama and saying "terrorist Muslim socialist" for ten minutes. McCain then blasts his own party for putting "the straight talker in a straight jacket." He calls the Republican party a bunch of bible-thumping morons who are following George W. Bush to the gates of hell because "that's surely where that sadist is headed.""And thanks a lot, you imbeciles, who made me select Palin over Lieberman," McCain says. "Friggin' Mike Tyson would have been a better choice. He would have split the black vote and could have at least bitten off Biden’s ear at the debate. Seeing Russia from her house, my ass," McCain sneers as he pumps a cardboard cutout of Sarah Palin full of lead.The last ten minutes are almost completely incomprehensible except for the phrase "friggin' economy" and "eight, nine houses, what's the goddamn difference?" The presentation ends with McCain staring into the camera and saying, "I'm John McCain, and I didn't approve of any of this crap.""Once the American people can see the real John McCain giving them the unfettered straight talk," said Rick Davis, head of the McCain campaign, "they will know exactly who to vote for."

Let's just get this out of the way first -- Obama did not delay [last night's] World Series game, as has been widely reported and even mocked by John McCain.

Ben Smith at Politico provides a fact-check: the first pitch [was] not delayed, but rather, there just [wasn't] a pregame show. So all Obama [did was] pre-empt Joe Buck -- and I think red and blue states can be thankful for that.

By the way, George reminds me that the NFL season opener was moved up an hour because of a certain someone's acceptance speech to the RNC.

October 29, 2008

Florida governor Charlie Crist, to the shock and dismay of Florida republicans, just moved to extend early voting hours, a move likely to widen the Democrats' lead under a program on which the Obama campaign has intensely focused.

"He just blew Florida{Ahem! -- Ed.} for John McCain," one Florida republican said.

Jesus Hussein Christ on toast, this Obama is a socialist bullshit is beyond stupid when these douchebags on the right don't consider a trillion dollar give-away to the wealthy elitists on wall street socialism. I damn near was ready for a rare rant, and then found that it has been said better by maha:

We liberals have a crazy notion that people who create the wealth through their labor — i.e., workers — ought have something to say about what happens to the wealth. And that maybe a part of the wealth could be used to benefit the nation and its citizens, and not just the wealthy and powerful at the top of the pyramid. We think that’s democracy. The Right claims it is “socialism,” but it is not socialism by any objective definition of socialism.

Unfortunately, the seeds have been sown, deeply. The first day of the failed socialist Obama presidency begins on Nov. 5 as gas prices shoot way the hell back up.By design.Buy your guns and ammo this week before the Democrats take them all away.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US joke of a president George Duhhhbya Bush, his approval rating below that of used-car salesmen, lawyers and rabid pitbulls with ebola, paid a surprise visit Tuesday to his republican party's headquarters, pushing staff to work hard for struggling liar John McCain, a spokesman said between tears.

The far reaches of outer Reichwingnuttia are in full warp gazillion shrilling mode with their big Obama defeating October Surprise:

John McCain's presidential campaign Tuesday accused the Los Angeles Times of "intentionally suppressing" a videotape it obtained of a 2003 banquet where then-state Sen. Barack Obama spoke of his friendship with Rashid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian scholar and activist.

Of course, the fact that Khalidi is a scholar who is now a professor at Columbia University means nothing to the Reichwingnuts. For fuck's sake already, his name is Rashid Khalidi and he is Palestinian.

Therefore he is a terrorist.

Fun IOKIYAR fact: During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McWorse distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.Obviously, those of us on the left can't understand how THAT'S different.Shoot me.

The party is pushing for the re-election of Senator Ted Stevens, who was convicted on Monday of seven felony counts but continues his campaign for a seventh full term, in the hope that his re-election will allow the party of morals and integrity to hold onto his seat even if Mr. Stevens eventually resigns.

A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist--Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine--that "we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs."

It's a massive, unmissable clusterfuck and has been for two months. They just can't hide it any longer. And the pick is a devastating one - because it basically destroys John McCain's credibility as a presidential decision-maker. His first major decision as a future president is one of the worst in American political history. That alone should be enough to seal his fate next Tuesday.

The infighting between what is now two camps -- rethug vs repuke! -- is just delightful to watch. Even the conservatard media is divided:

In addition to Mr Frum, who thinks her not ready to be president, Peggy Noonan, Ronald Reagan's greatest speechwriter and a columnist with the Wall Street Journal, condemned Mr McCain's running mate as a "symptom and expression of a new vulgarisation of American politics." Conservative columnist David Brooks called her a "fatal cancer to the Republican Party".

Rush Limbaugh, the [degenerate, drugged-out lardass] of rightwing radio, denounced Noonan, Brooks and Frum. Necon writer Charles Krauthammer condemned "the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama", while fellow [jerkoff] Tony Blankley said that instead of collaborating in heralding Mr Obama's arrival they should be fighting "in a struggle to the political death for the soul of the country".

Jim Nuzzo, a White House aide to the [smarter] President Bush, dismissed Mrs Palin's critics as "cocktail party conservatives" who "give aid and comfort to the enemy".

He told The Sunday Telegraph: "There's going to be a bloodbath. A lot of people are going to be excommunicated. David Brooks and David Frum and Peggy Noonan are dead people in the Republican Party. The litmus test will be: where did you stand on Palin?"

Bloviating douchenozzle wHoreward Kurtz living in a fantasyland where little naked Karl Roves ride about on rainbow-colored unicorns, dispensing flower-shaped tubes of Astroglide.

"On Fox News last week, Sean Hannity said he was tempted to ask Barack Obama: "Where did you buy your cocaine, how much cocaine? How much cocaine did you use? How often did you use it? When did you stop?""

That's funny. I'm tempted to ask Hannity "When did you stop beating you wife? How about Ramon, your gay lover? How many batteries does your dildo go through each week? Does your pastor know you eat with that mouth?"

"On the same Monday night, Keith Olbermann said on MSNBC that John McCain had a responsibility "to say 'enough' to Republican smears without end" and not be "party to a campaign that devolves into hatred and prejudice and divisiveness."

"Are these guys watching the same presidential race, or even living in the same country?"

Is wHoward Kurtz a complete d-bag? He misses the point completely. Of his own article.

Hey, fucking numbnut, go back and read your own stupid column. Whereas Hannity and Fox Nooze use every opportunity to lie about and smear Democrats, Olbermann fights back with the truth. Either you still have Karl's dick happily entrenched up your ass or you're just too fucking stupid to realize this. What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you even read what you write?? Pull the cheetos- and McSame dick-stained fingers out of your piehole and get a fucking clue, you imbecilic twat.

I guess you've all heard this by now. McCain staffers are blaming "diva" Palin's lack of readiness while the Failinistas are blaming the RNC and poor managing by McRove handlers who say they "did the best with what they had" -- which was a total disaster. It gets even better:

In a convo with [Politico's] Playbook, a top McCain adviser one-ups the priceless “diva” description, calling her “a whack job.”

Heh. Loose-cannon and "rogue elephant" Mooselini has been breaking away from campaign advisers and going off on her own, managing to be -- if you can believe it -- even more snotty and repellent than her cantankerous, lying old running-mate.

Good. While she may be energizing the rethug base -- who would have voted for the ticket anyway -- she's turning off the much-needed independents by the thousands. You go, you fucking harpy!

Citizens begin to rise up against the vile repuke smear machine. Years of rovian skeeve may finally be near their end.

Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.

Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger." Williams' daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave.

"We were asked to read something saying [Obama and Democrats] were against protecting children from danger," this worker said. "I wouldn't do it. A lot of people left. They thought it was disgusting."

Every day I talk to someone else who's never voted for a Democrat, but now they're voting for Barack Obama. They realize that Barack understands what we're going through here in North Carolina. And they're ready for change.So I've made up my mind, and I'm ready to get involved. I know that I could never have won a race without my pit crew, and I know Barack can't win this one without us.Can you sign up to volunteer this last crucial week?When I talk to folks about why I support Barack, I just tell it like I see it.I've been in a lot of races in my life. But this may be the most important one of all. So let's all get in gear and win it together.Yours,Junior Johnson

Yee-haw! Good ole boys for Obama! Awesome!Limbaugh will say it's all about race. Uuuugh.